/vr/ - Retro Games

There is no better feeling than having a long sought after game that slipped through your fingers during your youth, or buying new copies of games that you had to sell as a child at your local store so you could afford the new game you wanted. I went through a spurt of buying shit tons of genesis, sega cd, psp, ds and gamecube games about 5 years ago. Spent thousands of dollars.

At first it feels amazing. The rush of excitment picking up your parcel. Opening the box, popping the disc in and enjoying a bite out of your youth. But then its gone. So you buy more games, sure enough, those good feelings fade as well. Shortly, you will be down 10s of thousands of dollars on games sitting on your shelf. You could have backed out at the first 10 thousand, but you kept going, and now you have over 40k dollars worth of games that hopefully maintain their value, otherwise youll feel like the total fuckwit you deep down know you are.

None of the above applies if you dont intend on having children one day, already have a house and vehicle paid off and your cruising down easy street until you retire. If you are a poorfag and you think youre going to be a collector, just stick with flashcarts and sd carts. This shit will hollow you out and ruin you mentally and turn what was supposed to be a blast from the past, into an unquenchable obsession with no end.

Buying panzer dragoon for 1000+ or popful mail for 400 is just flat out fucking retarded. The most I ever dropped on a game was 140 for Lunar 2 eternal blue, and 170 for Shining Force CD. I had to tap out because I realized I would never own my own home one day if I kept indulging in my collectathons. I had the game collecting addiction paired up with vinyl lp collecting. Probably pissed away 20 grand. All that shit I bought is actually worth more now than when I bought it, but it was still a fools journey banking on that.

If I bought bitcoin instead, I would be rich enough to fuck all of your mothers.